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Show Personality Will Determine the Best Vocation to Follow, Says Physician In keeping civilization going, the introverts those persons whose interests in-terests are mostly personal furnish most of the ideas; the extraverts, or socially minded people, turn the wheels, Paul Popenoe declares in his article "Extravert or Introvert?" Intro-vert?" in the November Hygeia. Temperamental differences are of vital importance in vocational guidance, guid-ance, many a maladjustment of adult life being due to the fact that an extravert is trying to do an introvert's in-trovert's job, or vice versa. On the whole, extraverts naturally natural-ly tend to succeed best in occupations occupa-tions that bring them into contact with other people and that demand aggressiveness, decision and action. Introverts will be found predominantly predomi-nantly in places where they can work alone and in creative fields, such as art, science and literature. An extravert girl might fail as a sculptor but succeed admirably as a teacher of art to large groups of people. An introvert who goes into law will not be likely to win fame as a jury lawyer but will naturally gravitate into office work. In the family, each plays a different differ-ent role, and each must be treated accordingly. One is as good as the other; but one is by no means the same as the other. Successful parenthood par-enthood will take account of the differences. The extravert child will please his parents by making a good social adjustment without any special help; he will make good marks without much effort, will take the leadership in school activities, will be popular with associates because always ready with a joke or retort. The introvert is usually the opposite oppo-site of all this. His interest and attention are turned Inward rather than outward. Ha Is more concerned con-cerned with his own thoughts than with what is going on around him outside. He will bp modest, unassuming, unas-suming, cautious, critical, persevering. |